After just over eight years providing a daily updated news and events service for our village community, RUDDINGTON.info has ceased operating as a business from today, 1st August 2024.
It means this website will no longer be publishing any further news stories or events listings, although it will be kept online as a general Ruddington information resource and village news archive for the foreseeable future. Paid for advertising and promotion will cease, too. However, some AdBoxes will remain for current advertisers who pledge instead to make a monthly donation to a Ruddington charity.*
Owner and editor Graham Wright says: “I’d like to emphasise that RUDDINGTON.info has actually remained very popular and really well supported, and this decision is due to my semi-retirement, and for no other reason. Ruddington is such a busy and active community it has a been a 365-day-a-year job, to try to keep across everything 24/7, meaning precious little ‘downtime’. However, thankfully, our expanding village has more alternative information sources than ever before, to keep people updated now we’re ‘gone’. I’m personally looking forward to a rest!”
However, it’s not completely ‘over’ since RUDDINGTON.info will continue to share Ruddington related news and event content from other reliable sources as a ‘curated’ feed on our various social media channels, which will remain active. Therefore please do keep on keeping us posted/tagged in via our Facebook, X and Instagram pages.
Graham would especially like to thank his website launch sponsor Nottingham City Transport which, back in September 2016, kicked things off with the #RuddyGoodDayOut campaign, without whom it’s unlikely RUDDINGTON.info would ever have become a full news website. ALSO thanks to My Care – Care Homes‘ Ruddington Retirement Village who picked up this crucial main website sponsorship after ‘lockdown’ to enable our truly local service to continue.
Graham adds: “I’m also very grateful to the dozens of other Ruddington businesses who have advertised with us during the past eight years, and to the many contributors from the village who have tipped us off with important information, written us news and feature stories themselves, and provided some lovely photographs. Thank you, everyone!”
Starting on 1st September 2024, the AdBoxes which remain on RUDDINGTON.info will be in return for a monthly donation to a village-based charity of the advertiser’s choice* because, from now on, it will be a ‘scaled-back’ service purely as a non-profitmaking community resource, rather than as a business, and we would like to give something back…
*We’ll bring you more details about this charity initiative next month!
